Pad for garments



Jan. 6, 1931. I* A. G. sLADDlN 1,788,126

PAD FOR GARMENTS Filed May 1'7. 1927 FWG. 4e.

A t l f garment pad Patented Jan. v6, 1931 Unire. STATES PATENT/orales ARNoLn GLAns'roNn srnimnnv;` orrnrenousn, ENGLAND PAD Fon GARMENTs `Application filed May 17, 1927, Serial No. 191,991, and in `Great Britain November 20,1926.

This invention relates to an improvement in or modification of the invention described and claimed in my Patent Number 1,698,144, granted January 8, 1929, and has for its object an improved padand a cheaper production thereof.

In constructing garment pads in the manner described in the above-mentioned patent, certain or all of the shaped layers of cotton wadding or wadding comprising other suit able loose libres provided normally with a film of dried size uponone side thereof, are given a film or thin coat of wet or liquid size upon their unglazed sides, the several superimposed layers being relatively arranged in a particular manner whereby on being pressed together the wet size more or less penetrates the contacting surfaces causing the Whole of the layers to cohere.

The additional film of liquid size and its application adds to the cost of production and tends to set up a stiffness or hardness in the pad which it is desired to avoid, therefore, in the present invention the use of liquid size is dispensed with, the covering folds or layers are arranged with the glazed or sized surfaces upon the outside and the intermediate folds or layers arranged with the glazed surface of one fold adapted to make Contact with the unglazedsurface of another fold, the superimposed folds differing in size but of the same shape, so arranged, are placed within a mould, receptacle or the like wherein they are subjected to moist heat which causes e the normally glazed surfaces to become sticky or tacky and to adhere to the unglazed surfaces thus causing the whole of the folds to cohere. Vhen this has been accomplished the moist heat is substituted by a dry heat or by a vacuum, which operates to produce a substantially homogeneous adapted to retain its shape under all conditionsand of maximum softness and resilience.

I attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. l is a front view of oneeXample of a pad for garments constructed according to this invention, showing in broken lines the relatively different sized vfolds or layers of normally sized cotton wadding, forming the intermediate folds. j p l f Fig.f2 isa side elevationof thefolds or llayers employed in the constructionofthe pad shown-fat Figl, bowing the. arrangement-of the foldsrelatively to the glazed and `unglazedsurfaces thereof. i]

Figp is a similar view to FigZshowing' the stage of manufactureof thevpad vreadyfor beingV placed in the mould for: fixing the folds Fig. 4 is a modification of Fig. 2 showing theintermediate folds composed :of unglazed wadding v n f j f :ii .i

Fig. 5 is a sectional side elevation lthrough the line 2-2 of Figi, showing the shape* of the pad upon being taken out ofthe mould.

Referring to the `drawing The i several folds orlayers `of cotton -Waddingcutt`o a predetermined shapefand. of vdifferent sizes are relatively arranged and superimposed with the glazed surface B of one layer next the unglazed surface C of another layer, one of the covering layers D being preferably glazed upon both sides. It will be-observed that by this method and at this stageof the operation the glazed layers, which are cut from a sheet of normal previously sized wadding, are in a dry state with the layers being more or lessdetached from each other although in their correct positions.

The dry glazed surfaces B of the layers having originally been formed of an adhesive such as size, these surfaces may be again rendered sticky or adhesive by the application or placing of a moisture saturated cloth over the superimposed layers and the whole subsequently subjected to pressure by a hot iron particularly on the outer edges, which softens the glazed surfaces and causes the whole of the layers to cohere. The same result may be more effectually obtained by submitting the said superimposed layers to the action of a suitable steam pressing machine, the drying process being effected therein by vacuum.

he garment pad thus produced possesses the maximum softness and pliability in addition to other advantages mentioned with refy erence to my former patent.

The arrangement ofthe layers of glazed cotton wadding may be varied as desired, for instance, the two covering layers of the pad may both be cut or formed from wadding'hav- 5 ing only one glazed surface, and their glazed surfaces placed to the inside of the pad, thereby presenting an extra soft though Vstable Y Y outer surface to both sides of the cover, which may be ironed or otherwise, as desired. Further, the Whole or part of the inner layers may consist of loose carded unglazed wadding A( as shown at Fig. 4) if desired. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is z- Y The process of forming laminated pads for 'Garments comprising cutting from a sheet 0f l,bre wadding having preliminarily applied thereto a film of dry fusible sizing attached to one side,two layers oftheV same dimension, 2o two additional layers each of diflerent dimensions and each smallery than the first -mentioned layers, one of the first mentioned layers Yhaving preliminarily applied thereto an adhesive film of dry fusible sizing upon the oplposite side thereof, disposing the two smaller layers between the two first mentioned `layers with the "sizing of each layer exposedgto the un'sizedsurface of` the 1adjacent layer, arranging the 4'layers while loosely disposed in '3U vproper final position to form the pad, and subjecting the'said layers to pressure and moisture to fuse the lms of sizing and bind the plurality 0f layers together to form a composite pad.

Y :In testimony whereof I a'fixmy signature. f, ARNQLD GLADSTONE SLADDIN. 

